May Meeting

Messing with Mixed Media

Joy is well-known for her love of anything that involves heat guns and paint so introduced members to a technique for creating leaves from Lutradur.  She had pre-prepared the Lutradur with a machine-stitched length of wire for a central vein, so after an introductory talk everyone was soon able to make a start on cutting out leaves then zapping them with a heat gun. A fine balancing act between too little zap and not enough! Then, it was on to the paint and summer, autumn or frosty leaves were soon drying. A very informative and productive couple of hours.  Thank you, Joy.

Those members not joining the workshop made some progress with their current stitching.

 In the afternoon, Pam made a brief presentation about the four short-listed candidates for our next Artist of the Year.  Will it be Gaudi, Kandinsky, Mackintosh or the Memphis Movement?  Can't wait to find out in June!

Making an exhibition of ourselves!

 Three of us had a 'grand day out' staffing the Megastitchers' stand at the Manchester Antique Textile Fair last Saturday.  We had a good display of the variety of work we do - group projects, individual pieces from our in-house workshops and from other outside sessions members had attended. There was a good level of interest in our activities (ie non-stop talking!) and in our displays of old threads.  We also sold some of our old magazines, so the car wasn't quite as full on the way home.

Congratulations to the seven Textile Society bursary candidates who were awarded £500 each.  There was some amazing work.

Thanks to Ro and Petra for all their help on the day. Here are some photos from before the show opened.